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Patent GB-2166608-A (GB)
Title: DC/AC converter
Inventor: BRANDSTATTER WOLFGANG
IPC: H02M7/5381
Filed: 1985-10-02
Abstract: A DC/AC converter comprising a converter transformer and two controllable switching devices operating in overlapping commutation mode, an alternating-voltage source being arranged between the gate electrodes of the two controllable switching devices and a shunt being connected between the gate electrode and the reference electrode of each controllable switching device. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2168594-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to a seat belt anchorage
Inventor: EMANUELSON BJORN
IPC: A44B11/25
Filed: 1985-11-29
Abstract: A seat belt anchorage consists of a support member (1) which forms part of a carriage movable along a track. The support member is adapted to have a seat belt releasably connected thereto. The seat belt itself is located on an elongate member (5) which is pivotted to (1) by pivot (6) and engages a connection member 12, one end of which is engaged by a spring-biassed (10) catch member. The other end of the connection (14) may either be pivotally connected to the support member at pivot (9) or may be inserted into a socket or recess defined on the support member. The catch can be moved to a release position (15) to enable the seat belt to be detached from the carriage by releasing member (5). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2175322-A (GB)
Title: Tubular knitted article and method of its production
Inventor: UHLIR PAVEL
IPC: D04B1/26
Filed: 1986-04-10
Abstract: The invention relates to a tubular knitted article such as a sock and a method of its production. The invention solves the problem of most simple fashioning of the heel pouch by rotary knitting, which is substantially achieved in that between complete courses (A, P6) there are partial courses of three lengths, out of which one course (P3) is the longest, two courses (P2, P5) are shorter and two courses (P1, P4) are the shortest. The ends of the partial course are secured by tuck stitches. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2173697-A (GB)
Title: Warm air drier
Inventor: BARTON RICHARD
IPC: A47K10/48
Filed: 1986-04-11
Abstract: A warm air drier comprises a heat exchanger (11) connected with a heated fluid generation system, such as an internal combustion engine, (not shown) which supplies heated fluid such as exhaust gases, to the heat exchanger. A fan (18) causes air to flow through an outlet nozzle (6) of the drier after passage over the heat exchanger (11) whereby air flowing through the outlet (6) in use is heated by heat exchange with the heated fluid. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2187388-A (GB)
Title: Injection device
Inventor: ANDO YOICHI
IPC: A61M5/315
Filed: 1987-01-20
Abstract: An injector wherein a stopper which runs against the rear end surface of a cylinder to limit the forward movement of a piston is mounted movably in the axial direction on the outer periphery of said piston; the max. scale of the cylinder being marked at a position which coincides with that of the front end surface of said piston when said piston has been moved to a point where said stopper runs against the rear end surface of the cylinder, with an engaging part of the stopper locked at the forefront of the engaging part provided on said piston to lock the stopper. And, each of all the spaces between each two of the engaging parts provided on the piston to lock the stopper can be made identical with each of all the spaces between each two of the scale marks notched on the cylinder.
Patent GB-2187401-A (GB)
Title: Cyclone separator
Inventor: COLMAN DEREK ALAN
IPC: B01D17/02
Filed: 1985-08-02
Abstract: A cyclone separator comprises at least a primary portion (1) having generally the form of a volume of revolution having a first and second ends, the diameter of the second end (d<2>) being less than the diameter at said first end (d<1>). The primary portion (1) has at least two portions, an inlet portion being generally adjacent and coaxial to a separating portion. Further, the cyclone separator can have coaxially adjacent secondary and tertiary portions (2, 3) with the tertiary portion remote from the primary portion (1). The cyclone separator includes a single inlet (8) with at least a tangential component at or adjacent to the inlet portion, where the inlet (8) can be in the form of a 360<o> spiral, or a component formed in axial direction to the cyclone, or an inlet giving into a feed channel of involute form. The cyclone separator further includes at least two outlets (4, 10). At least part of the primary portion (1) or secondary portion (2) of the cyclone separator, instead of being frusto-conical may be a volume of revolution whose generator is a continuously curved line. Further, a method of separating oil-water phases using the cyclone separator comprises the phases being at a higher pressure than in each outlet and in the downstream end of the downstream outlet portion (4).
Patent GB-2203226-A (GB)
Title: Cooling assembly for a beverage can or the like
Inventor: HUANG KIN-SHEN
IPC: F25D3/10
Filed: 1987-04-10
Abstract: A can (20) or like container for beverages has an associated assembly, comprising a sealed compartment (13) which projects inwardly of the can (20) or like container from a wall (22) thereof, the compartment 13 containing an evaporable or expansible coolant and the base thereof being pierceable to allow the coolant to evaporate and/or expand, thereby cooling the contents of the can (20) or container. The compartment (13) may be pierced by means of a sharp tipped (16) operating lever (14) or by a spike mounted on an operating cover (Figs. 4, 5). Alternatively a separate piercable container may be provided in a recess in the base of the can or like container. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2192123-A (GB)
Title: Restraint system for vehicle occupants
Inventor: FOHL ARTUR
IPC: B60R22/26
Filed: 1987-04-14
Abstract: The present invention relates to a safety device for occupants of a vehicle. It comprises an automatic device for winding in the seat belt 10 and a stiffening device which comprises a pyrotechnic gas generator 30, a piston and cylinder device 28, a cable pulley coupled to the shaft of the seat belt and a traction cable 20. The device 10 is fixed by means of a reinforcement 16 to the seat, the generator 30 being arranged with the piston and cylinder device 28 separately from the winding device 10 and the cable 20 being surrounded by a jacket 24 making at least one hoop. Application: safety devices which can be mounted easily in motor vehicles. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2193775-A (GB)
Title: Device for positioning or removing an assembly of lines
Inventor: CASTEL YVON
IPC: E21B43/017
Filed: 1987-06-26
Abstract: The present invention relates to a device for positioning and removing a set of lines or a connector block. The device according to the invention is characterised in that it comprises an elongate element 21 which can be positioned by virtue of means 22 onto a base 20. This element comprises guides 27 for the ends of flexible lines. Means 28 for holding the line ends are fitted in these guides. The lines are intended to be connected by a sleeve to the ground lines. The device is particularly applicable to the production of petroleum effluents in an underwater environment. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2194867-A (GB)
Title: Disconnection of a sub-bus from a main bus
Inventor: MINAGAWA YOSHIJI
IPC: H04L69/40
Filed: 1987-09-07
Abstract: Load control system is for disconnecting abnormal sub-bus from main-bus; The load control system has switching circuit (50+51) for connecting the sub-bus (1A, 1B . . . 1N) to the main-bus (2) or disconnecting sub-bus (1A, 1B, . . . 1N) from the main-bus (2) and bus watch device (30A, 30B . . . 30N) for detecting abnormal state of the sub-bus and for operating the switching means to disconnect the abnormal sub-bus from the main-bus (2).
Patent GB-2200384-A (GB)
Title: A paving slab or a tile with a picture or message
Inventor: PRINCEN PIERRE
IPC: E04F15/10
Filed: 1988-01-14
Abstract: A paving slab or tile comprises a rigid body portion 15 made from resin bonded mineral powder to which is bonded by a resinous adhesive 14 a sheet of glass fibre fabric 13 having a logo, picture or other matter painted on it. The fabric has a protective transparent coating 12 of resin-bonded glass particles applied to it to form a transparent wearing surface. Adhesive 14 may incorporate a luminous pigment. The slab or tile can conveniently be moulded in an upside-down form as shown by placing the various layers successively in a mould cavity 10 and allowing the resinous materials to cure. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2203601-A (GB)
Title: Connecting control units for electro-hydraulic control systems for mining equipment
Inventor: KUSSEL WILLY
IPC: H01R13/00
Filed: 1988-03-09
Abstract: An electro-hydraulic control system for a mine working employs individual control units (1) fixed to roof supports for example. Each control unit has a housing (2) containing programmable electronic devices and is connected via cables (15, 15') to electromagnetic valves and possibly to a programmer. A connector (3) is coupled to the housing (2) and connects the housing (2) to a set of cables (21) leading to the input side of the control system. The housing (2) has a series of plug pins (17) which locate inside sockets (19) in the connector thereby to be connected to plugs (20) on the cables (21). The housing (2) can be removed from the connector (3) for access or change while leaving the connector (3) and input cables (21) intact. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2217892-A (GB)
Title: Display devices
Inventor: PITCHER JOHN N
IPC: G09F9/305
Filed: 1988-04-29
Abstract: In a display device, the passage of light from a source 1 via individual optic fibre cables 3,6 to a display panel 8 is selectively controlled by an LC shutter array 5 to give a high degree of reliability and control especially in signs exposed to the weather. The array may be provided at the inlet end of the cables, adjacent the display panel 8 or at an intermediate portion of the cable. The array 5 may be controlled by signals generated locally at 12 or transmitted by radio, ultra-sonic or infra-red waves. The display panel may be planar or 3-dimensional. The display may be in the form of alphanumeric and/or pictogram messages. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2222996-A (GB)
Title: Lifting device for tractor; lifting attachment
Inventor: DARBY GRAHAM JOHN
IPC: B66C23/44
Filed: 1988-09-21
Abstract: The device is of the kind having an upright column 1, the lower end of which is provided with means for attachment to the three-point linkage of a tractor, and a jib 2 pivotally coupled to the upper end of the column. The jib carries a hook 33 at its free end, and a ram 35 extends between the column and a pivot 34 disposed part-way along the jib. The vertical depth of the jib 2 progressively increases between the hook and the pivot 34, and then decreases again towards the column. The jib is of box section and is formed of a pair of side walls provided with inturned flanges welded together. A lifting attachment for use with the device comprises a horizontal H-shaped frame having a central lifting pin 46 for engagement with the hook 33 and spaced lugs 48 for engagement with a tillage bag. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2216840-A (GB)
Title: Potters wheel
Inventor: GUEST BRIAN WILLIAM
IPC: B28B1/02
Filed: 1989-03-14
Abstract: A method of, and an apparatus for, turning pots at a working location provides for the positioning of a working wheel (19) in the working location and the tilting the wheel towards an operators position at the location so that a working axis of rotation of the wheel is at an angle to the vertical and the wheel faces, at least partially, towards an operator at the working location. The working wheel can be located by way of a cantilever so as to provide for ready access to a clearance volume beneath the wheel at the working location typically for the legs of a person in a wheel chair and for the forward part of the wheelchair. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2222190-A (GB)
Title: Installing large, heavy structures on the sea bottom
Inventor: KARAL KAREL
IPC: B63C7/08
Filed: 1989-06-30
Abstract: Means and method for transportation and installation of large, heavy elements or structures on the sea bottom at relatively large sea depth, said means comprising one or more re-usable, ballastable high pressure resistant buoyant bodies (1), preferably made of concrete, said bodies devised for attachment to the structure or element with suitable attachment means 11, said buoyant bodies provided with a trimming- and ballasting part (3) for fine adjustment of the ballasting and trimming during the coupling procedure between the structure and the buoyant body for controlled monitoring of the structure clown to correct position on the sea bottom with or without reference to the sea surface during the operation. A cable 33 may be connected to the sea bottom for controlled monitoring and pulling the structure down to a correct position on the sea bottom. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2236206-A (GB)
Title: Display medium
Inventor: BEAUGIE JOHN M
IPC: G09F7/08
Filed: 1989-09-22
Abstract: A display medium comprises a board 1 with parallel slots on its surface wherein a loop textile material 3 is adhesively bonded to the slotted face of the board 1 and lines the slots 2 without blocking them and presents a multiplicity of loops 4 for engagement by hook material 6 on the back of an article to be displayed. The slots 2 receive lugs 9 on the back of symbols 11. By this arrangement, both letters and the like, provided with lugs 9, and posters and other sheet-like material, provided with hook material 6, may be displayed.   <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2272705-A (GB)
Title: A process for coating fiber reinforced ceramic composites
Inventor: DIETRICH HERBERT
IPC: C04B41/72
Filed: 1989-10-06
Abstract: A process for coating fiber reinforced ceramic composites which has particular application for high temperature resistant composite materials for use in applications such as the aerospace industry involves etching the surface to be coated with an etchant to expose the fiber in the ceramic composite while leaving the fiber intact and bound to the ceramic composite, followed by coating the etched surface with a coating composition. The fibre may be carbon, silicon carbide or alumina-boria-silicate and the matrix may be carbon, silicon carbide, silicon nitride, boron carbide, boron nitride, epoxy resin or polyimide resin. Etching is achieved with chlorine, hydrogen and hydrogen fluoride or with hydrogen and the thermal decomposition product of a fluorocarbon resin. The coating composition may be silicon carbide, boron carbide, titanium carbide or silicon nitride and may contain a metal such as molybdenum, titanium, irridium or silicon.
Patent GB-2225755-A (GB)
Title: An intergrated offshore safety system
Inventor: BALL STANLEY
IPC: B63C11/52
Filed: 1989-10-30
Abstract: This invention relates to an integrated offshore safety system on a buoy or like structure at a safe remote distance from the platform continuously monitoring safety data. Able to adopt primary or secondary control, receive, select and switch power. A remote subsea pump system supplies fire and deluge water and trickle charged hydraulic accumulators which actuate remote subsea emergency shut-off valves. A safety or service vessel can couple to the remote buoy/safety station to provide power or manual intervention and so allow re-entry to the platform by rescue and fire fighting crews.
Patent GB-892482-A (GB)
Abstract: 892,482. Ring carrier retaining means. ZINSER TEXTILMASCHINEN G.m.b.H. April 5, 1960 [April 6, 1959], No. 11940/60. Class 120(2) In a ring spinning frame in which each ring is carried by a member 2 connected to the ring rail 4 and releasable for individual lowering, the connection is by magnetic means. In the form shown the connecting means is a permanent magnet 5 which co-operates with a surface on the carrier 2 preferably flat as shown; the carrier is disconnected by a cam 8 pivoting on the ring rail and operated by the lever 7. When electromagnetic means are employed disconnection is effected by switching off the current to the magnet. In alternative forms the surface co-operating with the magnet may be conical, hemispherical &c. and in place of the cam and lever arrangement a system of wedges, screws, levers &c. may be used.
Patent GB-2226285-A (GB)
Title: An electric power steering system for an automobile
Inventor: OSHITA SAIICHIRO
IPC: B62D5/04
Filed: 1989-11-28
Abstract: The system includes a housing (32) mounted around a steering torque transmitting shaft (26, 30), a steering torque sensor (48, 50, 52), accommodated in the housing, and a control unit (17) for providing a drive signal, in response to the torque signal, to control an electric motor 14, which is mounted to the housing (32) with its reduction gearing and optional clutch. The control unit (17) is integrally mounted to the housing (32) so that the power steering system is more compact and reliable and is easier to test and install; moreover, heat from the control unit (17) is transmitted directly to the housing (32) so that special cooling means, e.g. fins, are not needed. 
<??>The torque sensor comprises a pair of magnetic drums (48, 50), relative rotation of which due to steering input torque is detected by pickup (52). In addition to the torque sensor, a steering angle sensor may be provided and the control unit (17) may be connected to sensors of road speed or engine speed. 
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Patent GB-2240574-A (GB)
Title: Bifold door
Inventor: COLE NICHOLAS WALTER GEORGE
IPC: E05D15/26
Filed: 1990-02-02
Abstract: The bifold door has two folding sections 10 hinged horizontally in the centre 12 and top 14 the bottom of the door being held in a track arrangement 16. As the bottom of the door is raised vertically by one or more hydraulic rams the centre of the door hinges outwards thus opening the door and providing a canopy from the building to which it is attached. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2242400-A (GB)
Title: Vehicle suspension system
Inventor: HALL KEITH GORDON
IPC: B60G3/28
Filed: 1990-03-29
Abstract: The invention relates to wheel suspension systems for vehicles in which chassis mounted cantilevered arms 4, 5 are used to support at least one pair of wheelhubs in which the breadth to depth ratio at the section of maximum bending moment of the arm is greater than 4 to 1. Preferably the vehicle has two pairs of wheels and the cantilever arms are used to support both pairs of wheels. A pair of cantilever arms may be used to support each wheelhub; each pair of cantilever arms may comprise an upper and a lower arm attached to a kingpin which carries the wheelhub. The wheels may be fitted without pivots and the roll and pitch characteristics are selectable so that the system can provide both anti-squat and negative squat geometry. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2233198-A (GB)
Title: Radiant heating device
Inventor: GOTTSCHLING RUDOLF
IPC: H05B3/74
Filed: 1990-05-04
Abstract: In a radiant heating device a heating coil of electrical resistance wire is arranged between an insulating support (5) and a cooking hob (2). In order to simplify the laying out of the heating coil and at the same time to enable a wide range of shape as regards the glow pattern and the distribution of the supply of heat, the heating coil consists of a plurality of individual heating coil parts (8). Each heating coil part (8) comprises a coiled section (9) and two end pieces (10,11). The end pieces (10,11) are inserted through the insulating support (5) and are electrically connected with one another on the side of the insulating support (5) lying opposite the coiled section (9). The electrical connection may be made by welding, by electrical connector wires or strips or by casting metal connector rails (figs 5-12). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2234603-A (GB)
Title: "Plug for fiber-optic waveguide"
Inventor: RHOESE HARTMUT
IPC: B23K26/02
Filed: 1990-07-16
Abstract: A plug for fiber-optic waveguide (20) with an optically active core (22), a jacket (24) surrounding the core, as well as an outer coating (26) arranged around it, for detachable coupling to electro-optical components emitting high-energy laser light, is designed such that the waveguide extends into the tip (14) of the plug and is formed in this region without its outer coating and being spaced from the waveguide passage (16). This permits cooling of the waveguides to prevent burnoff losses. A centering element (28), which may be ruby or nickel-silver may be cemented into the plug tip. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2242549-A (GB)
Title: Naming of database component files to avoid duplication of files
Inventor: GRAMLICH WAYNE C
IPC: G06F17/30
Filed: 1990-07-25
Abstract: A file to be added to a database is given a unique name that is dependent upon the content of the file such that, when the content of the source file changes, the name of the database component file to be added to the database also changes. Conversely, if two files of the same name have the same information contained therein, the same file name will be generated and the duplication of information in the database is prevented by providing a simple test that checks for the existence of the name of the database file before the generation and addition of the new file to the database. If the file name exists in the database, the information is already contained in the database and the file is not generated and added to the database information. The name of the file is generated by computing a hash value from the contents of the file and concatenating the hash value to the name of the source file. Because the source file name is used in conjunction with the hash value to construct the database file name, the hash value does not have to be unique for all files but only for those source files having the same source file name.
Patent GB-2239969-A (GB)
Title: Printing employing a dot printer
Inventor: HAYASHI MIKIO
IPC: G06K15/10
Filed: 1990-12-05
Abstract: Dot pattern data representative of an original dot pattern is received and converted into a secondary dot pattern by replacing at least one selected original dot or group of successive original dots with a secondary dot, which is provided at a location spaced from a preceding dot location by an interval K times an original dot interval (where 1 < K < 2). Printing is then performed on the basis of the secondary dot pattern. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2250527-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for use in dredging material
Inventor: LANGLEY PETER ROBIN
IPC: E02F3/88
Filed: 1990-12-05
Abstract: Deep water dredging is effected by cyclic operation of a pneumatic source which cyclically pressurises and vents an underwater unit having a debris-collecting chamber (23) and inlet and outlet valve mechanisms (21, 22). Each valve mechanism has a cylindrical valve element (32) longitudinally movable within a valve body (30) to open or close a valve orifice formed by a seat (31). The body (30) is internally provided with inverted L-shaped vanes (33) which are interconnected on the axis of the body (30) at the end remote from the valve seat (31) to form a stop for the element (32). The element (32) of the inlet valve mechanism (21) is a hollow cylinder which is open at its end remote from the valve seat (31) whereas the element (32) of the outlet valve mechanism (22) is a hollow cylinder which is closed at both ends. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2242796-A (GB)
Title: Automatic frequency synchronizer
Inventor: YOO YOUNG
IPC: H04N5/06
Filed: 1991-01-10
Abstract: An automatic frequency synchronizer for a display device comprises a phase locked loop 400 with an oscillator VCO and a phase comparator PC. Continuous adjustment of the VCO frequency occurs until the phase comparator detects no phase difference. This adjustment may be provided by comparing a low pass filter (LPF) output with two reference voltages and providing two control signals. The control signals may be digitally processed and then converted to analogue before being applied to the VCO. <IMAGE>